Re:Rethink, Reduce,

Recycle, Recover,

Reuse...and

Repeat it Every Day.

Georgia-Pacific creates long-term value by using

resources efficiently to provide innovative products and

solutions that meet the needs of customers and society,

while operating in a manner that is environmentally

and socially responsible and economically sound.

Rethink, Reduce, Recycle, Recover, Reuse… and Repeat it Every Day.

Throughout our history, Georgia-Pacific has worked to create products that improve people’s lives, use resources wisely, actively engage in our communities, and contribute to society by being a prosperous business. In a word, GP has been sustainable.

At Georgia-Pacific, we define sustainability as “meeting the needs of society today without jeopardizing our ability to do so in the future.”

Sustainability has three dimensions–social, environmental and economic. To remain sustainable, our decisions must balance all the dimensions of sustainability. We need to focus on creating long-term value while understanding the impact of our business decisions in each of these dimensions.

In recent years, sustainability has taken on a new level of importance for our customers, our communities and society as a whole. There is increasing interest in where our raw materials come from, how our products are manufactured, and the impact we have on the places where we live and work.

We believe this focus on sustainability offers many opportunities for our company–some incremental and others that potentially could have the power to transform the products we make and/or the way we do business.

This brochure reviews just a few of the many ways GP employees are working to “meet the needs of society” with the needs of future generations in mind. We’re committed to finding ways to add value through sustainability–for our customers, for our communities, for society and for Georgia-Pacific.

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Georgia-Pacific works with customers to improve the total supply chain, delivering environmental benefits in the process. GP has always worked to reduce waste and minimize costs across all of its operations—from raw material procurement and trans-portation to mill processes and shipping of finished goods. The Packaging Systems Optimization (PSO™) Program, developed by GP’s Innovation Institute®, applies the same scrutiny to a customer’s supply chain, helping them improve their environmental performance. PSO is helping customers reduce costs, fiber consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and overall energy use.

By analyzing the production line and packaging system for a large liquid laundry detergent manufacturer, GP was able to reduce the customer’s packaging material use, in-bound freight costs and production line waste. The new corrugated package had higher stacking strength, which also improved product appearance and reduced damage.

Proposed packaging system changes for another customer have enabled them to pack more product per box, pallet and truckload. The same amount of product can be delivered in fewer trucks—reducing transportation costs, fossil fuels burned and the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Globally, supply chain efficiency is a key component of sustainable growth strategies.

We’re taking a closer look…at products, at processes, at the entire supply chain…and we’re delivering innovative solutions that extend environmental benefits into the marketplace to our customers and consumers.

Packaging that Stacks Up Packaging Systems Optimization(PSO™) Helps Customers Reduce Material Use and Costs, and Meet Sustainability Goals

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Beyond Product Safety into Product ResponsibilityAll Georgia-Pacific products must meet the requirements of a Product Safety Criteria (PSC) tailored to the characteristics and applications of each product category. This PSC is an element of a more complete system devised by and implemented for Georgia-Pacific packaging and consumer products that may come in contact with food, and must meet additional standards of safety. GP developed the Product Hazard Analysis and Control management system, known as PHAC™, to meet and exceed U.S. Food and Drug Administration standards for food contact materials. This is in addition to chemical, environmental, handling safety and other customer and company regulations and require-ments. The PHAC™ system also addresses environmental protection requirements and provides for stringent monitoring, tracking,

incident reporting and corrective

action and verification.

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Resists Moisture, Fully RecyclableThe corrugated box is a tremendous recycling success story, boasting the highest recovery rates of any paper or paperboard product. But, until now, many types of produce, poultry and seafood had to be shipped in non- recyclable, wax-coated packaging. With the introduction of Greenshield®

packaging, GP tackled one obstacle to corrugated recycling. Greenshield, an alternative to waxed corrugated used in moderate moisture applications, is completely recyclable. Greenshield provides the moisture resistance needed for long-term refrigerated storage of produce, poultry and seafood and reduces the amount of corrugated packaging going into the waste stream.

A layer of highly reflective aluminum

foil applied to Plytanium® plywood

and Blue Ribbon™ oriented strand

board (OSB) sheathing adds an

energy-efficient dimension to these

construction mainstays. Thermostat®

Radiant Barrier Sheathings reflect

up to 97 percent of radiant heat in

the attic and may reduce the amount

of energy used for air conditioning by

up to 17 percent in warm climates.

Homeowners can save on cooling

costs, and the reduction in energy

consumed helps reduce power

plant emissions.

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* This product can be processed successfully in commercial composting operations. The fiber portion (85 to 90% of the cup weight) is fully compostable. The coating (10 to 15% of the cup weight) is not inherently compostable, but it will separate from the fibers and can be screened out at the end of the composting operation.

Plywood and OSB for Energy-Efficient Homes

Source Reduction, One Towel at a TimeGP’s unique dispensing systems for paper towels,

tissue, napkins and soap have been proven to

reduce consumption in away-from-home environ-

ments. The enMotion®, Cormatic® and System

3000® dispensers work by controlling the amount

of towels or product dispensed. The enMotion

“touchless” towel dispenser reduces waste at

the source, improves hygiene for consumers

and reduces paper usage by at least 20%.

Innovative product designs, including the Big Fold®

C-fold replacement towel and EasyNap® dispenser

napkins, reduce usage and waste by 30 percent

compared with other standard products. GP’s

Compact® coreless tissue and dispenser

eliminate roll cores and reduce packaging

waste by 96 percent.

Georgia-Pacific continuously explores ways to minimize our impact on the environment—reducing raw material needs, water usage, air emissions and waste at the source.

Stretching Wood Resources

GP Wood I Beam™ joists use 40 to 50 percent less

wood fiber than 2x10 or 2x12 dimension lumber with-

out sacrificing performance. Constructed from oriented

strand board and sawn or laminated veneer lumber

(LVL), engineered products like Wood I Beam joists, GP

Lam® LVL, Fiberstrong® rim board and other engineered

lumber products are excellent for floor and roof systems.

They also use wood from smaller trees, resulting in more

efficient use of forest resources.

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Using 100% of the TreeGP manufacturing processes are

planned to ensure that no part of

the tree is wasted. Chips and wood

waste from sawmills and plywood

plants supply pulp and paper mills

as well as plants that make hard-

board and oriented strand board.

Less Water, Cleaner Water Water is a critical element in many of GP’s manufacturing processes. We use creative and innovative methods to conserve, reuse and reduce water used in our processes, and to ensure that our process water is properly treated before being released. For example:

• GP’s Toledo, Ore., containerboard mill is recognized as being better than 90% of similar mills in the nation when it comes to efficient

water use. Yet, in response to a drought, the mill additionally reduced water consumption by 2 million gallon/day.

• In the past 10 years, GP’s Palatka, Fla. mill has reduced ground water usage by 90%, and releases only 4% of the water that is used, after thorough treatment. The mill has implemented process improvements so that it’s effluent now contains 86% less phosphorus and 59% less nitrogen.

Heat Does Double Duty Most of Georgia-Pacific’s large pulp and paper mills

self-generate power to run equipment needed to

make bath tissue, paper towels, linerboard and many

other paper products people use everyday. We gener-

ate this power from steam produced in our boilers.

Through a process called cogeneration, or combined

heat and power, we can use that steam as it’s on its

way to be used in the manufacturing process to turn

turbines that generate additional electricity to run other

parts of our operations. Cogeneration enables us to

self-generate electricity at about double the efficiency

of a typical commercial utility.

That’s important to Georgia-Pacific’s sustainability

efforts. In 2010, the company used more than

300,000 billion Btu to power its manufacturing opera-

tions in North America. More than half of that energy

is self-generated, and of that self-generated energy,

about 70 percent is used in the cogeneration process.

Cogeneration makes economic sense by eliminating

waste from the commercial electricity generation pro-

cess. By making both heat and power more efficiently,

we buy less electricity from power companies, provid-

ing an environmental benefit by reducing the overall

emission of greenhouse gases.

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Moving Products Cleanly and Efficiently with SMARTWAYSM

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products is a member of

the SmartWaysm Transport Partnership, an innovative

collaboration between the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) and the freight industry designed to

increase energy efficiency and significantly reduce air

pollution. In 2008, our intermodal loads, which emit

half the carbon of standard loads, increased by 20,000

and “collaborative loads”, in which GP works with other

shippers to use trucks which would otherwise “deadhead”,

or return empty, by 10%. The partnership’s goal is to

reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 33 to 66 million

metric tons, reduce nitrogen oxide by up to 200,000

tons and to achieve fuel savings of up to 150 million

barrels of fuel annually by 2012.

This is the equivalent to

taking about 12 million

cars off the road.

Georgia-Pacific’s Camas mill is helping promote the development of renewable energy as a major participant in Pacific Power’s Blue Sky renewable energy program. Blue Sky energy comes from wind power; an attractive form of energy generation because it helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, produces no air pollutants, wastewater, smog or acid rain.

By participating in Blue Sky, Georgia-Pacific is offsetting 1,122 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per month, which has the environmental benefit of taking 2,304 cars off the road or planting 441 acres of trees per month.

GP Pursues Green Energy

Georgia-Pacific goes full circle when it comes to paper recovery and recycling. GP Harmon Recycling, a Georgia-Pacific company, is one of the world’s largest buyers and sellers of wastepaper, and GP uses approximately 3 million tons of recovered paper and paperboard in its facilities. That’s just part of the story.

Paper Recycling: A Big Priority and Big Business for GP Americans recycled 340 pounds of waste paper per person in 2007* and global demand for wastepaper is climbing. Georgia-Pacific consumes approximately 3 million tons of recovered paper internationally, using some percentage in many of its products including tissue and towels, office paper, containerboard and corrugated boxes and building products.

GP Harmon Recycling makes sure Georgia-Pacific facilities are well-positioned to meet their recovered fiber needs, as well as addressing the growing demand for recovered paper around the world. A Georgia-Pacific company, GP Harmon manages over 10 percent of the U.S. supply of wastepaper, purchasing nearly 6 million tons of recovered paper annually.

GP’s Halsey, Ore., paper recycling facility diverts nearly 200,000 tons of wastepaper per year from West Coast landfills and uses it to produce bright white pulp without the aid of chlorine or chlorine compounds. The pulp is used for business papers and towel and tissue products.

Additionally, 100 percent of the paper that covers GP’s ToughRock® gypsum drywall is recycled, and has been for nearly 50 years.

*American Forest and Paper Association

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Recycling Waste into Wallboard Chemically identical to natural gypsum, synthetic gypsum is created through flue gas desulfurization, a process that utilities use to scrub their air emissions to remove sulfur and sulfates. Working with the utilities, GP recovers more than 600,000 tons per year of this synthetic gypsum that was once landfilled and converts it into gypsum drywall at GP facilities in Indiana and Washington.

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A Place for Commercial WasteEcosource, GP’s wastepaper processing operation, annually recycles more than 100,000 tons of pre- and post-consumer grades of wastepaper and plastics generated from both commercial and industrial sources. The Ecosource location at Green Bay, Wis. collects, sorts and processes books, magazines, rolls and industrial grades of wastepaper from paper mills, offices, universities, printers and other types of facilities. At the Green Bay facility, about 60 percent of collections are from a 300-mile radius. Within 24 hours, Ecosource turns wastepaper into high-value materials for GP mills or for sale on the open market.

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Meeting Federal GuidelinesGP is a leading supplier

of tissue products to

the federal government,

providing products that

meet their guidelines for

post-consumer waste

and total recycled fiber

content.

Choose GP Recycled Products Georgia-Pacific is the largest producer of recycled away-from-home

tissue products, offering more than 200 products that contain up to

100 percent recycled fiber. GP’s Envision® line of washroom and

tabletop products meets or exceeds the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency’s recommended guidelines for total and post-consumer recycled

fiber content. Our GP Recycled Copy and Print paper and our

Spectrum® Recycled Multi-Use paper contain 30% post-consumer

fiber. Consumers who want paper towels, napkins and bath tissue

with recycled content can choose Mardi Gras® and Soft ‘n Gentle® brands.

Recycle... Recover

Waste not. It’s good business, and it’s good for the environment. Whether reclaiming waste for energy or for making useful products, GP looks for ways to maximize resources and improve efficiency.

Innovative Ways with Waste By-products from Georgia-Pacific processes often end up paving roads, making grass grow or providing a strong foundation for highways.

The Savannah, Ga., and Wauna, Ore., paper mills have used ash from their power boilers, which would otherwise be landfilled, for road stabilization and building. At the Savannah River mill, it was first used to pave company roads and parking lots, but was then used for a community project that paved 150 miles of secondary county roads—saving Effingham County millions of dollars over the cost of asphalt.

Local farmers and turf growers benefit from waste that is turned into fertilizer in several GP plant communities. The Halsey, Ore., mill annually turns 600 dry tons of recycled paper residual into a commodity valued by local farmers for the production of grass seed. Gypsum waste in California is used as an agricultural soil amendment.

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Waste Fuels Our Facilities Bark, wood residues and by-products from pulping are used to create electricity at GP building products and paper plants. Known as “woody biomass” fuels, they supply more than 50 percent of the energy required for GP’s operations. In fact, GP is responsible for more than 12 percent of the electricity generated from renewable woody biomass in the entire U.S.

Biomass fuels reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and demand for purchased electricity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Purchased Electricity 6%

Fossil Fuel 34% (coal, fuel oil,

natural gas & other)

Biomass Fuel 60%

GP’s Annual Energy Use by Source* * in 2010

A Framework for Environmental Performance At GP we document our environmental perfor-

mance through comprehensive self-audits and

third-party audit programs. Our employees who

have environmental responsibility receive training

to keep them current on changing requirements

and goals. Environmental excellence is recognized

and rewarded at GP and is an important part of

performance expectations.

Creating a Fishy Environment

In Washington state, GP is working with the

city of Camas, the Burlington Northern Santa

Fe Railroad and the Lower Columbia River Fish

Enhancement Group to return a portion of the

Washougal River to its traditional channel and

vegitate the shoreline with native plants. This

will benefit salmon and steelhead passage

through the area and restore flow to historic

salmon spawning beds.

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Environmental stewardship is not defined by a single event. It’s about consistency, about an ongoing commitment to a way of thinking, operating and performing. It’s a commitment that’s repeated every day.

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Finding a Way: Measuring Forestry BMPs Georgia-Pacific was challenged with measuring compliance with forestry Best Management Practices (BMPs) that protect water quality. GP had accurate information for lands on which it supervised harvesting, but needed additional data to comply with SFI program standards. Working with a private forestry consulting firm, GP helped pioneer a third-party monitoring system to accurately capture BMP compliance that protects water quality in the areas where GP operates. The program is an excellent example of cooperation among forestry interests to meet sustainable forestry goals.

Promoting Sustainable Forestry by Supporting Family Forest LandownersGeorgia-Pacific is committed to sustainable forestry. The company meets this commitment by working with family forest landowners and through a rigorous wood procurement program. Across the US 56% of all forestlands are privately owned with 38% owned by family forest landowners.* GP promotes sustainable forestry practices among the landowners and suppliers

from whom we purchase wood. We protect water quality by requiring the use of voluntary and mandatory forestry Best Management Practices. GP provides land owners with practical approaches for addressing wildlife habitat and threatened and endangered species. We encourage reforestation and require that wood suppliers be trained in sustainable forestry practices.

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Collaborating for Longleaf PineGeorgia-Pacific is working with the National Wild Turkey Federation on a longleaf

pine restoration project on some 7,500 acres of southern forestland, including

restoration in Georgia’s Okefenokee area which was damaged by wildfire.

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Caring for Wildlife Georgia-Pacific works to provide a safe home to local wildlife, including red cockaded woodpeckers, leopard frogs, glass lizards, and gopher tortoises. Led by trained environmental teams, Georgia-Pacific employees volunteer their time building bird houses, planting food plots and managing our plant sites to protect wildlife, including endangered and threatened species.

Verifying Our Wood Procurement PracticesGeorgia-Pacific has taken several steps to provide assurance to our customers that we are responsibly sourcing wood and fiber for our pulp, paper and wood products operations. Our ongoing actions include:

· Certification of our wood and fiber sourcing practices;

· An independent analysis for controlled wood risk in the basins where we operate; and

· Implementation of chain of custody programs.

* Source: USDA — Forest Resources of the United States, 2007

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Building Better Indoor Environments Georgia-Pacific’s innovative products can help improve interior environments. GP’s DensArmor Plus® interior drywall is the first gypsum drywall to be GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certified and GREENGUARD Children & Schoolssm Certified for low emissions. The Dens® family of gypsum products, including DensGlass® Sheathing (pictured), resists mold and provides added durability and moisture forgiveness within wall assemblies.

In addition, GP’s low-emission resins work has positive implications for our customers and consumers. Responding to the needs of fiberglass insulation and high-pressure laminate manufacturers, GP has developed low-formaldehyde-emitting resins that improve indoor air quality and help our customers meet GREENGUARD certification requirements when our resins are used in their products. Our low-formaldehyde resins also improve our customers’ workplace environments while significantly reducing facility emissions.

Pushing for Greater Recovery U.S. paper producers have set a goal of recovering 60 percent of the paper produced in the United States by 2012. In 2008, the industry recovered a record high of 57.4 percent of the paper consumed in the U.S., up from 33 percent recovered in 1990. GP is part of this effort, led by the American Forest & Paper Association, and used 3.4 million tons of wastepaper in its facilities worldwide 2008.

GP and “Green” Building Wood-frame construction that uses dimensional lumber like 2x4s and 2x6s to frame homes and plywood or other wood panels for sheathing is the traditional building method in North America. Recent life-cycle analysis of building materials shows wood to contain less “embodied energy” and less global warming potential than steel and concrete alternatives. Producing wood products uses less energy than manufacturing steel or concrete. It takes 5 times more energy to produce a ton of concrete and 24 times more to produce a ton of steel than a ton of wood. Also, steel conducts 400 times more heat than wood, so homes built with wood take less energy to heat and cool. GP supports wood-frame construction as a sustainable practice that uses products derived from North America’s fast-growing and renewable forests. The company supports both national and regional green building programs, which provide blueprints for energy-efficient, healthy, durable and comfortable homes that reduce utility bills and help protect the environment.12

GP Packaging Plants Earn SFI LabelAll GP Packaging plants are certified

to use the Sustainable Forestry

Initiative® (SFI) Certified Sourcing

label. To meet the criteria for this

product label, two-thirds of a

company’s packaging raw material

must originate from responsible fiber

sources. Displaying this label is a

visible way for GP and our customers

to demonstrate a commitment to

sustainable packaging.

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Headquartered at Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of building products, tissue, packaging, paper, cellulose and related chemicals. The company employs nearly 35,000 people worldwide. The familiar consumer tissue brands of Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products include Quilted Northern®, Angel Soft®, Brawny®, Sparkle®, Mardi Gras® and Vanity Fair®. Georgia-Pacific away-from-home products include the popular enMotion® hands-free towel dispensing system and the Envision® line of recovered content paper products. Dixie Consumer Products, a Georgia-Pacific company, manufactures the Dixie® brand of disposable cups, plates and cutlery.

Georgia-Pacific has long been among the nation’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers, with brands such as Plytanium®, Ply-Bead® and Wood I Beam™ offered by Georgia-Pacific Wood Products and DensArmor Plus®, DensGlass® Sheathing and ToughRock® offered by Georgia-Pacific Gypsum. For more information, visit www.gp.com.

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All GP trademarks are owned by or licensed to Georgia-Pacific LLC. The GREENGUARD INDOOR AIR QUALITY CERTIFIED Mark is a registered certification mark used under license through the GREENGUARD Environmental InstitutePrinted on recycled paper made with 30% post consumer fiber.

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